Accession number
MS M.645
Object title
Psalter fragment (MS M.645).
Display Date
between 1175 and 1199.
Created
Germany, perhaps Swabia, between 1175 and 1199.
Binding
French 17th-century brown leather, gilt tooled with an oval design in center of both covers; fleurs-de-lis in the corners; in brown leather cse.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1919.
Description
15 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 222 x 163 mm
Provenance
Louis Phélypeaux II, comte de Pontchartrain (1643-1727), (bookplate); not traced in his sale (Paris, 1747); Rev. Walter Sneyd of Bagington Rectory, Coventry; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Dec. 16, 1903, lot 659); purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Leon Gruel in 1919.
Notes
Ms. psalter fragment; written and illuminated in Germany, perhaps Swabia, in the last quarter of the 12th century.
Decoration: 14 full-page drawings outlined in red and black ink, on blue and green grounds and bordered in red; one illuminated initial.
Decoration: 14 full-page drawings outlined in red and black ink, on blue and green grounds and bordered in red; one illuminated initial.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin
Resources
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